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APRIL 8, 2025

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. That has consequences.

Elementary School

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NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. Some are bringing back a classic approach that was once common in medieval universities: the oral exam. Will the ideas catch on?

Exams

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APRIL 28, 2020

So, where does this come into play for me as a math teacher? For as long as I can remember, I have loved everything about math—especially teaching young people and seeing the lightbulb come on in their eyes. But, sadly, after 20 years teaching math to middle and high schoolers, I have experienced the pain of watching students struggle.

Math

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JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

Math

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Carnegie Learning’s math solution helped them achieve even higher. Our SBAC data was the best we’ve had for math in 25 years! We just used Carnegie Learning Math.” Our 6th graders, 74% of them passed the state exam. Carnegie Learning math moved everybody up.” And we did not teach to the test.

Math

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The verbal exam is the world’s first fully automated speaking assessment and covers nine languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese and Tagalog. Educational institutions use WebCAPE , Emmersion’s adaptive placement exam, to measure learners’ reading, grammar and listening skills.

Language

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Anderson had cleared the reading and writing portions of the Praxis Core with ease, but he kept failing the math component. He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. We don’t need a standardized exam for that.

Exams

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

The assessment, which has been administered every three years since 2000, measures math, science and reading literacy of 15-year-olds in 73 education systems around the globe. The 2015 study showed that the country’s 15-year-olds have largely stagnated in subjects like science and reading literacy, while math scores have fallen.

Achievement

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

“While that may be heresy, I believe education is a fundamentally human endeavor that involves motivating and inspiring students to develop a passion for learning. During the conference, hosted by NYU Steinhardt, she used her voice to direct the edtech-friendly audience to where she felt technology could be used strategically in schools. “We

Educational Technologies

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MAY 11, 2021

As a result of Larkin’s innovations regarding district staff’s strategic collaboration, professional development and investment in evidence-based practice, students with disabilities made double-digit gains in reading and math on the NAEP assessments. Between 2011 and 2015, students in fourth grade made the third largest gains in the nation.

Education

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

For students who have been historically marginalized, Algebra I has become a sort of gatekeeper course,” says Henry Hipps, deputy director of K-12 Education at the Gates Foundation. Without access or success, their advancement to higher-order math and other skills, like abstract and critical thinking or data analysis, is obstructed.”

Math

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. And these students were 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to complete a college-level math or English course within three semesters.

Exams

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

They think about problems in context, consider multiple tools and approaches, and apply science, math and data to continuously evaluate designs and make improvements. Some of these insights come from natural cues and human interaction; others via education technologies specific to subjects and lessons.

Teachers

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

The need to strengthen the science, technology, math and engineering (STEM) careers pipeline has received renewed interest lately. Another Language A reader from Utah : “For me the breakthrough was finding out math is just another language with its own grammar and syntax. Can math be taught [or] is it just a gift.

STEM

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MARCH 14, 2022

SmarterProctoring provides a flexible and credible way to manage and administer proctored exams with support for face-to-face and online proctoring. Students are also able to practice with the ClassCalc calculator before starting their assessment, so they are confident in using the application on exams.

Academic Integrity

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JULY 30, 2021

For educators and parents navigating the world of education technology, international players such as Byju’s may not yet be household names. FutureSchool offers project-based coding and math classes with live tutors who serve as coaches.) But they will. His classes grew in size and number. But they will.

Exams

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MAY 30, 2018

When No Child Left Behind passed back in 2002, Congress enthusiastically proclaimed that 100 percent of American students would be proficient in reading and math by 2014. NCES has been administering the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam since 1969.

Exams

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MAY 8, 2017

Many high-stakes math exams still only allow handheld graphing calculators in the classroom. states, one territory, and the Bureau of Indian Education, has agreed to make the Desmos calculator available as a tool in its online exams. Bob Lochel, high school math teacher. More than 10 million U.S.

Testing

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The district formed a partnership with HMH—purchasing HMH Into Math, HMH Into Reading, HMH Into Literature, and Waggle programs, along with professional services, which are all accessed via Ed, HMH’s learning platform. Shawn is a visionary when it comes education technology and how it can change and shape the minds of students.

Education

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MAY 9, 2023

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. dissertation defenses we have now.

Grades

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AUGUST 27, 2024

–Jessica Campos, Instructional Technology Coach, Mesquite Independent School District In the 2024 to 2025 school year, districts will be asking more questions about evidence of impact when they’re evaluating and selecting education technology solutions. Schenker, Ed.D.,

Schools

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Reforming Developmental Education According to the Community College Research Center, developmental education is essentially a “reteach” of high school and junior high school reading, writing, and math.

Education

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MAY 2, 2018

The results of the study pose big questions for reform-minded educators who advocate for students to have multiple chances on exams. The MyLab Math report is one of 12 efficacy studies the company released about one month ago. It is normally used to help lagging students build math skills.

Study

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. We handle, for instance, the CELDT exam for the state of California—the California English Language Development Test—which is a massive test. We still have an emphasis on math and language.

Testing

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Built specifically from state and Common Core education standards, Study Island has a fun and easy-to-use interface that’s proven to produce significant academic growth outcomes in math, ELA, science and social studies with just 30 minutes of practice a week. Study Island New Game-Based Group Sessions.

Testing

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They've got to take a national licensure exam, their state board. We know that 50 percent of students arrive on college campuses, not actually ready to do college level math or English. I can infer, maybe, what you studied, but I don't actually know how good you are, what skills you have, what actual knowledge you have.

Education

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JUNE 26, 2019

Four-and-a-half years after Amazon first released Alexa, its voice-activated virtual assistant, the technology is finding its footing in education. The ACT skill, which provides general information about the exam and can help students prepare for the test, will be available to the public this fall.

Skills

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JULY 22, 2019

In 2015, fewer than 10 girls of any race took the AP Computer Science exam in ten states, and not a single African-American student took the exam in nine states, including Mississippi, where 50 percent of high school graduates are African-American. In 2013, among B.S.

Beliefs

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

East Asian countries led the pack when it comes to reading, math and science, topped by China’s handpicked, wealthiest regions. Estonia and Finland, whose education systems are often held in high esteem, also placed high. In the latest edition, 600,000 students in 79 education systems across the world took the two-hour PISA exam.

Testing

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The old SAT was put to bed earlier this year, and it’s in with a new version of the college admissions exam. In March 2014, College Board announced a plan to redesign the SAT , removing obscure vocabulary, changing focus of math areas, removing penalty for guessing on questions and making the essay optional.

Testing

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

A packed crowd of students between country’s equivalent of sixth and 10th grades, sat for a math lesson from a 38-year-old tutor-turned-CEO. In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. million) this fiscal year.

Exams

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Last week, testing provider NWEA—best known for its district-level MAP Growth exams—came out with a bold new claim: The way states give summative assessments is broken. NWEA’s solution, which it calls “through-year assessments,” is to give students shorter exams lasting about 45 minutes per subject in the fall, winter and spring.

Exams

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APRIL 19, 2017

Ninety-two percent of fourth grade ELL students scored below proficiency on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading exams. Yet in recent years, technology developers focused their efforts on English Language Learners (ELL) like Estrada. National Assessment of Educational Progress reading exams.

Language

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As of this year, our scores have gone up significantly, and in our zone of 16 schools, we are currently sixth in ELA based on state test scores and seventh in math. The effect size of teacher instruction is calculated using pre- and post-exam scores between each unit of instruction.

Exams

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APRIL 9, 2019

The pressure of keeping up with our district’s curriculum map, getting through all the standards and preparing these struggling math students for Algebra I, led me to utter the worst possible sentence in that moment: “Time to start our next unit: Percents, Proportions and Ratios.” My heart sank. Common sense, right?

Learning

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JUNE 25, 2018

Nearly ten years ago, I started my career in education as a math teacher at a new alternative high school serving over-age, under-credited youth in New York City. Creating a Toolbox—and Filling It After creating the gradebook, my colleague and I developed a curriculum aligned to New York state math standards.

Exams

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Data from the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study , for example, showed that female students are more likely to take advanced courses when surrounded by other female peers with higher level math coursework experience.

Skills